There were nine more witnesses set to testify at the public hearing of the Senate justice panel's inquiry into extrajudicial killings, but the committee chose to end the inquiry too soon, Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV said.

Self-confessed hitman Edgar Matobato filed on Friday complaints against President Rodrigo Duterte and his son, Davao City Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte, for the alleged crimes of murder, torture and kidnapping.

Lovely Adam Impal, the alleged supplier of shabu of drug dealer Kerwin Espinosa, is no longer lovely in the eyes of drug traders, but she is getting lovelier in the eyes of the government, Philippine National Police chief Director General Ronald dela Rosa said yesterday.

Out of the 3,000 fatalities labeled as death under investigation (DUI) or those killed during the five-month-old war on drugs of the Duterte administration, about 2,000 were not drug-related, Philippine National Police chief Director General Ronald dela Rosa disclosed yesterday.